Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Nota in Brevis

One Stop Death Shop

Well, it’s certainly convenient, as well as profitable: A funeral home in Vancouver that will kill you, then cremate your body – or, if you insist, they’ll bury you in one of those ‘ecologically insensitive’ coffins. Tut, tut. Why not just go straight to compost? The murder is less expensive than disposal of the resulting[…]

Nietzsche and Tumbler

Nietzsche either warned or advocated – depending on your point of view – the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion of the moral law. After all, from his perspective, after the ‘death of God’, there was no moral law, and never has been. Christianity was invented to keep the masses subservient,[…]

Harvesting the Living

The words themselves are chilling: ‘Pre-death approval by the coroner‘: And on it goes into the abyss: “17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of organs or tissue after the death of a person notwithstanding that death has not yet occurred if: (a) in the opinion of a physician the death of the person[…]

Anastasia – the Musical!

I’d like to say publicly that the students here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, under the direction of our staff and faculty, did a wonderful, even a quasi-miraculous, job with the musical Anastasia – the vivid acting, the coordinated harmonized singing, the choreography (from waltz to ballet), the scenes, the incredible live music[…]

Thomas’ Pange Lingua

Saint Thomas Aquinas spent some time in the early 1260’s in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto, perched way high up on a promontory, about an hour outside Rome. When I visited there years ago, we had to take a cable car to the top. It was here, in the glorious cathedral, that Thomas commissioned by[…]

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